WATER-RESOURCES ACTIVITIES OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ILLINOIS, 1992 Compiled by G.O. Balding U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report 93-649 Urbana, Illinois 1994 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GORDON P. EATON, Director For additional information, write to: Copies of this report can be purchased District Chief from: U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey 102 E. Main Street, 4th Floor Earth Science Information Center Urbana, IL61801 Open-File Reports Section Box 25286, MS 517 Denver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 CONTENTS Page Origin and mission of the U.S. Geological Survey ................................................................................ 1 Mission of the Water Resources Division.............................................................................................. 2 Illinois District organization................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Unit......................................................................................................................... 5 Publications and Data-Management Unit........................................................................................ 5 National Water-Quality Assessment Unit....................................................................................... 5 Investigations Section...................................................................................................................... 5 Operations Section.......................................................................................................................... 7 De Kalb Subdistrict Office.............................................................................................................. 7 Illinois District funding sources.............................................................................................................. 7 Federal program.............................................................................................................................. 9 Federal-State cooperative program................................................................................................. 9 Other Federal agencies program...................................................................................................... 9 Water conditions..................................................................................................................................... 11 Data collection........................................................................................................................................ 11 Surface-water data stations.............................................................................................................. 11 Discharge and stage stations.................................................................................................. 15 Water-quality stations............................................................................................................ 15 Ground-water stations..................................................................................................................... 19 Data management................................................................................................................................... 21 National Water Data Storage and Retrieval System....................................................................... 21 National Water-Data Exchange....................................................................................................... 21 Descriptions of projects in 1992............................................................................................................. 23 IL-: 001 Surface-water stations...................................................................................................... 24 002 Ground-water stations...................................................................................................... 26 003 Quality of water stations.................................................................................................. 27 004 Sediment stations ............................................................................................................. 28 007 Water use.......................................................................................................................... 29 075 Upper Illinois River Basin water-quality assessment...................................................... 31 080 USGS/USEPA interagency agreement projects............................................................... 34 083 Rainfall-runoff relations in three small watersheds in Du Page County.......................... 36 084 Analysis of existing biological data for the upper Illinois River Basin........................... 37 086 A statistical and graphical description of Illinois ground-water quality.......................... 38 089 Rainfall-runoff relations in eight watersheds in Lake County, Illinois............................ 39 091 Techniques for flood-frequency analysis in changing watersheds................................... 40 093 Use of co-registered SLAR and TM imagery to classify and map land cover in northeastern Illinois.................................................................................................... 42 095 Chlorine stable isotope composition of brines from the Lower Paleozoic sediments of the Illinois Basin..................................................................................................... 43 096 Hydrogeology and contaminant assessment in the southeast Chicago area..................... 44 097 Sedimentation of the Kankakee River.............................................................................. 45 098 Transport and fate of volatile organic compounds during landfill-gas migration through the subsurface environment........................................................................... 46 099 Hydraulic model verification and documentation for unsteady flow............................... 47 in CONTENTS Page Publications............................................................................................._^ 49 Water-resources information........................................................................................................... 49 Streamflow records.......................................................................................................................... 49 Quality-of-water records................................................................................................................. 49 Ground-water records...................................................................................................................... 49 Publications pertinent to Illinois............................................................................................................. 49 Professional Papers.......................................................................................................................... 49 Water-Supply Papers....................................................................................................................... 50 Circulars.......................................................................................................................................... 50 Hydrologic Investigations Atlases................................................................................................... 51 Hydrologic-Unit Maps.................................................................................................................... 53 Water-Resources Investigations Reports (WRI or WRIR)............................................................. 53 WRI/^S......................................_ 53 WRIR/ESIC.................................._ 53 Open-File Reports (Earth Science Information Center).................................................................. 55 Water-Resources Investigations/Open-File Reports....................................................................... 56 Miscellaneous reports...................................................................................................................... 57 Water-Data Reports......................................................................................................................... 57 Conference abstracts and papers and journal articles...................................................................... 57 Where to obtain additional information on U.S. Geological Survey programs in Illinois..................... 59 References............................................................................................................................................... 59 Illustrations Figure 1. U.S. Geological Survey organization chart..................................................................... 3 2. Water Resources Division organization chart................................................................. 4 3. Illinois District organization chart and office addresses.................................................. 6 4-6. Maps showing: 4. Subdistrict and field headquarters areas of responsibility.................................... 8 5. Average annual precipitation in Illinois, 1961-90................................................ 12 6. Runoff during 1992............................................................................................... 13 7. Graph showing number of continuous-record